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Poplar 1914

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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(16) Patient, aged 30, of Chiltern Road. Notified 5th October.
Removed to Eastern Hospital, October 5th.
(17) 6th November. Patient, aged 23 years, of Augusta Street,
Poplar. Patient removed to Sick Asylum on 29th October.
(18) 29th October. Patient, aged 21 years, of Grosvenor Buildings,
Poplar. Patient removed to London Hospital on 29th October.
(19) 2nd November. Patient, aged 41 years, of Wilson Street,
Bromley. Admitted to Sick Asylum on 29th October, and died on 1st
November.
(20) 2nd November. Patient, aged 26 years. Admitted to Sick
Asylum on 31st October from Poplar Union Workhouse, her former
address being Chilcot Street, Poplar.
(21) November 7th. Patient, aged 28, of Poplar Union Workhouse,
from Warrington Place, Poplar. Admitted to the Workhouse on that
date as a lunatic.
(22) November 12th. Patient, aged 22, of Benledi Street, Bromley.
Admitted into London Hospital 10th November. Died in that institution
on date of notification.
(23) November 12th. Patient, aged 21, of Shepperd Street, Bromley.
Removed to Sick Asylum on 12th November.
In cases of puerperal fever, should there be a doctor attending he
is immediately communicated with by letter asking him to warn all
persons in attendance upon the patient that they must not go near nor
attend upon another lying-in case for some weeks to come and then only
after their clothes, etc., have been properly disinfected, and he is informed
that disinfection is carried out free of charge upon application being made
to the Public Health Department ; the midwife, should there be one
and all other persons in attendance upon the patient, are also communicated
with by letter in which the above warning and information are
embodied; the London County Council are also informed of the case ;
and the premises and clothes of the patient are disinfected in due course.
Deaths.
Ten patients died—2 Poplar, 4 Bromley, and 4 Bow.
SMALL-POX.
No case of Small-pox was notified during the year.